Monday, December 18, 2006

Could You Pass My Course?

I dedicate this post to my fans at Penn State.

I'm giving a chemistry test to my juniors tomorrow. There are two bonus questions at the begining of the test. One of them is "What is my name?" A little further down in the multiple choice section I bury this little gem:

17) Which of the following scientists established a magnificent laboratory, wrote a definitive text on chemical nomenclature, and is generally considered to be the founder of modern chemistry? A) Those clowns over at IUPACB) Antoine Lavoisier C) Dean A. Sxxxxxxxxx-Cxxxxxxxxxxs D) Albert EinsteinE) Andrew G. Ewing

Anyone want to bet none of them will make the connection between the questions?

4 Comments:

Seeing as you have mentioned that your school puts most of its students on the fast track to college, I'm guessing that there will be a few who pick up on that.

It's like those tests that have a long list of things to do and the first action on the list is to read the test and then the last item says to not do the items inbetween the first and last item. If you follow the first instruction, you learn that you don't have to do any of the other instructions. (Then as you get older, you learn you don't have to do anything except play Xbox 360 and sue people for $$$.

Seeing as you have mentioned that your school puts most of its students on the fast track to college, I'm guessing that there will be a few who pick up on that.

It's like those tests that have a long list of things to do and the first action on the list is to read the test and then the last item says to not do the items inbetween the first and last item. If you follow the first instruction, you learn that you don't have to do any of the other instructions. (Then as you get older, you learn you don't have to do anything except play Xbox 360 and sue people for $$$.

Seeing as you have mentioned that your school puts most of its students on the fast track to college, I'm guessing that there will be a few who pick up on that.

It's like those tests that have a long list of things to do and the first action on the list is to read the test and then the last item says to not do the items inbetween the first and last item. If you follow the first instruction, you learn that you don't have to do any of the other instructions. (Then as you get older, you learn you don't have to do anything except play Xbox 360 and sue people for $$$.